Feminist attacks on Barrett dishonor the legacy of RBG

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s third nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, is the living embodiment of the things that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her career fighting for.

A highly accomplished professional woman, Barrett is a former Supreme Court clerk, a former big firm lawyer, a professor of constitutional law and civil procedure and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the 7 th Circuit. And, on top of all that, she and her husband are raising seven children!

Like Ginsburg, whom she will replace if confirmed by the Senate, Barrett is a brilliant scholar and jurist, admired by her colleagues not only for her sharp mind but for her humility and warmth.

And yet, so-called women’s advocates have launched a mean girls campaign to tear this exemplar down.

They falsely claim that she is a member of a religious cult that expects women to be submissive — although it doesn’t seem as if Judge Barrett is doing a great job at that.

They make absurd accusations that this mother of four girls wants to slam shut the doors that Ruth Bader Ginsburg opened before others can walk through.

And, in a sexist twist that lacks even a hint of irony, they question whether a woman with such a high-powered career is capable of being a “loving, present mom.”

In addition, despite the progressive feminist penchant for saying that “lived experience” is as important as paper credentials, they scoff at a nominee whose perspective as a mother of seven children — two adopted from Haiti and one with special needs — is unique among the current justices of the Court.

Does it occur to progressive feminists that such a perspective may have imbued Judge Barrett with the sort of compassion, empathy, and unyielding commitment to equal justice under law that they claim they want in a Supreme Court justice?

Of course it doesn’t.